Politics & Government

More Emergency Communication Urged Following Pipeline Explosion

The National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman announced several new recommendations the agency will soon be issuing to prevent any more lack of communication between first responders and utilities in the event of another explosion.

The National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman paid a visit to San Bruno today to get a first-hand look at the damage left by the Sept. 9 pipeline explosion in the Crestmoor neighborhood. She was escorted by Congresswoman Jackie Speier and other officials.

Afterward, she announced that the NTSB would be issuing several new pipeline safety recommendations that would strengthen the communication between utilities and emergency responders if another explosion ever happened again.

Hersman also shed light on the recent news that PG&E failed to disclose that Line 132—the gas transmission line that ruptured near Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue, leaving 38 homes destroyed and eight people dead—had a leak in the 1980s several miles near the site of the Crestmoor explosion.

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